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TIL that the first age restricted town in the US is named Youngtown

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gpj7 TIL the collective nouns we use for animals (gaggle of geese, herd of deer etc.) mostly come from the Book of St Alban’s published in 1486. It also included terms for professions such as a melody of harpists, a sentence of judges and a superfluity of nuns.
kOyMg TIL of the “smoosh method”, a way of introducing two chinchillas to each other by placing them both in a small cage they can’t move in so they don’t attack each other
WkvON TIL a group of escaped German POWs returned to Camp Ozada in Alberta, Canada voluntarily after encountering a grizzly bear
9wkjp TIL About the Norwegian community of 2,000 people with 151 cases of sex crime
neZBb TIL The grand children of Hermann Göring (commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe and highly ranked Nazi Officer) sterilised themselves to cut the family line.